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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did I tell you?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't they chase that fellow? exclaimed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They were two to one and it seems to me they had a great chance to bring him down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must remember this, Jacques reminded him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He had a good start on them and, if anything, had a faster machine than theirs. Then that scout of ours may have very important news for headquarters as a result of his observations. He probably wants to report as soon as he can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's true, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had almost forgotten this attack to-morrow I got so excited watching the aeroplanes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You started to tell what Captain Le Blanc said, Earl reminded his brother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go ahead and finish what you heard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Leon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whew, whistled Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks as if we meant business all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We surely do, agreed Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're to carry along bridging to form pathways across the German trenches so we can bring up our guns and supplies quickly. All shoes and extra clothes and blankets are to be turned into the quartermaster; every man is to put on clean underclothes so that if he is wounded he won't be infected. You're to have your gas-masks ready and every one will receive one hundred and thirty extra rounds, making two hundred and fifty in all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When do we move into the trenches?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten o'clock to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And final inspection is when?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One hour before that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'd better get ready, exclaimed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's almost supper-time now and we've got lots to do."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like this business of hanging around, whispered Jacques in Leon's ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd like to get started."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So should I, agreed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems sort of weird standing here in the darkness with thousands of men all about you, all waiting for the same order that we are."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't tell, replied Jacques in answer to his comrade's query."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Both regiments are attached to our division though, I think."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This seems like a funeral march,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I don't like it, either,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait, cautioned Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everyone's spirits will revive in a few minutes. The strain will wear off soon."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here we come to the trenches, exclaimed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What time is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just eleven o'clock,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An hour so far,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, said the man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look! exclaimed Leon suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What place is this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's not much left of it whatever it is,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's the moon, whispered Earl suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw it over my right shoulder. That means good luck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll need it,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're in the first line trench,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't have to tell me that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They say, shouted Jacques after a consultation with the man next to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope they don't find us here, said Leon grimly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to live long enough to get into this fight to-morrow anyway."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How big are those long-range cannon of the Germans?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten-inch, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're good ones too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't they use the 42-centimeter guns out here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, they're for smashing forts. They're mortars, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None of them compare with our 75's,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is, for field work, you mean,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. And no gunners can compare with the French, either."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's been proved to every one's satisfaction, I guess,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ought to get some sleep,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can any one sleep here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I can, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm healthy and I'm tired."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can lie right down here in the trench, suggested Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can use our knapsacks for pillows and maybe get a little sleep."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is no place for a man who's nervous,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should think not, exclaimed Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still I don't suppose it will do us any good to keep thinking about it. I suppose we might as well try to get a little rest as Jacques advises."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jacques won't be able to lie down, laughed Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's too tall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not at all, protested the young Frenchman quickly, taking this remark literally."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am but six feet two; you and Earl are at least six feet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not quite, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At any rate I was only fooling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about sleep? exclaimed Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can get some little rest anyway."
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cannonade is worse than it was last night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you're right, Leon, Jacques agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is quite natural though."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As a final effort I suppose,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Exactly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's breakfast, shouted Earl, trying to make himself heard above the roar of the artillery."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That coffee looks good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eight-thirty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three quarters of an hour more, sighed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish it was time to start."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here,"
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can see the German barbed wire in front of their trenches, said Leon excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you suppose we'll ever reach that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll go right on over it, said Jacques confidently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you worry about that."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are to keep in line with those two big trees on the hill yonder, said Jacques, pointing to a spot behind the German positions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As long as we keep headed for them we will be all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That ought to be easy enough,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good luck,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are we waiting for?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are we waiting for?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forward! shouted the captain in a loud, clear voice that could be heard even above the din of the cannonade."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vive la France!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This way,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Careful, Jacques, warned Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't go too fast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're all dead in here,"
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be so sure they're all dead, cried Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You never can tell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't touch them, Jacques, shouted Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're surrendering."
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was easy enough,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those fellows were dazed, cried Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They didn't know what they were doing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who would? demanded Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you'd been under that bombardment for the last twenty-four hours the way they have been I guess you'd be dazed yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I hope they'll all be that way, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It won't take us long in here if they are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How big is this place anyway? said Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must be careful going around corners and places like that. We can't see what is waiting for us."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out, Leon! cried Earl sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look out for that fellow."
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You saved my life, Leon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Huh, snorted Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hated to stab him like that but it was the only thing to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He wouldn't have hesitated to fix us I guess, exclaimed Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's Jacques?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the floor there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know. I haven't had a chance to look at him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you feel, Jacques? Where did he hit you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He just grazed my head,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucky for you, muttered Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he'd ever caught you squarely you'd be dead now, sure enough."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me see where you're hurt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not much of a wound, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He just stunned me; I'll be all right in a minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bring some water and a towel from that washstand over there, Earl,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feel all right, Jacques?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better lie down here on this bed for a little while."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say not, exclaimed Jacques warmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We were sent in here to rout out the enemy and that's what we must do. There are surely more of them than we have seen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Next time we must be more careful going into rooms like this, advised Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It doesn't pay just to go ahead blindly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a turn just ahead, whispered Jacques cautiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be ready."
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, he whispered, beckoning to his two companions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have your grenades ready."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lean your rifles against the wall here,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hein!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let 'em have it!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the way! shouted Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That'll fix them I guess!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's enough of that,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep back against the wall, warned Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have your pistols ready."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're all dead I guess,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be so sure, cautioned Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait a minute longer."
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's go in there,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go slow, warned Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may be a trap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll be ready for them, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come along."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A man doesn't stand much chance against these grenades, does he? exclaimed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're certainly deadly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucky for us they are, said Jacques shortly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now for a souvenir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do with them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Make rings, said Jacques calmly slipping the buttons into his pocket."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These men belonged to the Imperial Guard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you know?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at the eagle on the buttons here; that proves it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'd better move on, exclaimed Leon a moment later."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go pick up your hat, Jacques, and we'll get the rifles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My poor hat, laughed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will have a window in it now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd better be glad it isn't your head that has the window, said Leon grimly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see that you have anything to complain about."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not complaining, smiled Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I agree that I am fortunate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come along, urged Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We may run into some more of the Boches any minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boches"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm ready, exclaimed Jacques, and they returned to the spot where their guns had been left. The young Frenchman rescued his hat which had a hole cut cleanly through the crown."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will give good ventilation,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen, he whispered tensely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear someone coming."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, is it you, my friend Leon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is I; Pierre Garemont,"
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where have you been, Pierre?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Searching for the Boches, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But alas I have had but poor luck; I have found nothing but dead ones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where are you going now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back to the battlefield to rejoin our men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is the work all done down here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see no more to be done. Let us go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You two were making a lot of noise coming through that passage, remarked Jacques severely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would have been easy for anyone to ambush you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha, ha, laughed Pierre loudly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Boches, they are too stunned by our bombardment to do anything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you believe it! cried Leon seriously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we go with you you'll have to be quiet, that's sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know the way out?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are not sure, said Jean."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We were looking for it when you so rudely pointed your guns at our heads."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We won't do it again, promised Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You lead the way, Pierre, and we'll follow."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After them!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This way,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't run into a trap,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is Pierre dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too bad,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's part of the game, said Jacques in a matter-of-fact tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can do no more for him. Let's move on."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fellow that killed him won't do any damage again anyway, remarked Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You fixed him all right, Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go slowly from now on,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where did they go? demanded Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'd better not stand here any longer though. Some one will take a shot at us if we're not careful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right you are, agreed Jacques heartily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's follow this passage and see where it leads us."
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, cried Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are the Germans we were chasing."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's certainly a funny sight, laughed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those Germans couldn't run away or do any damage now to save their lives."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great way to send prisoners back to the lines,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's where we belong,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here come reinforcements!"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we wait and go forward with the reinforcements?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say not, cried Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our regiment is ahead there and that's where we ought to be."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're pretty well protected here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, agreed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those scrubby little pine trees hide us from the sight of the German observation posts. Their artillery won't bother us much here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We don't want it to, said Leon grimly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has done enough of that already."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it will do a whole lot more,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This trench leads right over the top of the ridge, remarked Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait until we get there and we'll catch it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not if we stay in the trench,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I don't think we will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know for sure?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I don't, but I imagine we'll have a chance in the open again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the idea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When we leave the trench each section will charge in Indian file, answered Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Instead of being abreast we'll be one behind another. In that way we'll offer a much smaller target."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True enough, exclaimed Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a great scheme."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at those two big howitzers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where are the men to attend to them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask our gunners, advised Jacques grimly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps they can tell you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Simply this, said the young Frenchman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One or two of our big shells made direct hits on this battery and the gunners are not in existence anymore."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if one ever does, exclaimed Jacques,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why so? demanded Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a hole as large as this we might get nothing worse than a spattering of dirt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Jacques,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well there wouldn't be enough to make much of a fuss over, I guess,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ho, Coudert,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got orders?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are to leave here, said Jacques,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we'll probably have to stay out all night,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should not be surprised,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That'll be nice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coudert says, continued Jacques,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can use them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spread out, was the order."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Advance in open formation."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, Jacques, called Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you feel?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine. Do you know our section didn't lose a man on the way down the hill?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That so? Good for us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's Earl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The other side of you, I think. Yell at him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey, Earl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hello, came the answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just wanted to know if you were all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely. I don't see the point in these piles of dirt in between the ditches though. It seems to me that the dirt would do more good in front."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've got enough in front, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll see the use in that dirt in between us if a shell should ever land squarely in one of the ditches."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Their fire is slackening,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, agreed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There seems to be only one battery firing at us now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That shows how good our artillery is, said Jacques proudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That one battery that's left would have been silenced long ago too if it hadn't been hidden pretty well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know it's hidden?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because they'd have located it before this time if it wasn't."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dig the trenches deeper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hear that? demanded Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That means we stay out here all night, I guess."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing, Jacques?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Watch me,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're crazy, Jacques, exclaimed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all, chuckled Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I love to fool them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll get fooled yourself if you're not careful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I won't either."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How big is your ditch, Leon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know; it's pretty good size."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Large enough for two?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might hold two I guess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right then, exclaimed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm coming over to see you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were too slow that time, my friends,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was a risky thing to do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know it, admitted Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All war is risky."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just for that reason there is no use in taking unnecessary chances."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was not unnecessary, grinned Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand that you have some bread and cheese still left and I am hungry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's true,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder what some of my friends would say if they could see me now, mused Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess they'd be surprised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because you are fighting here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. They probably couldn't understand why I should want to enlist in some other country's army and go to war for strangers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you are fighting for liberty, exclaimed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "America stands for liberty, does it not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It certainly does, cried Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still some people would probably wonder why I should want to fight for another country's liberty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, protested Jacques,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think it's strange, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it's only right. What I said was, that some of my friends might not understand it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "America and France both stand for liberty, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They both had to fight hard to get it and now they should help each other keep what they have won so dearly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The two nations have always been good friends,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, agreed Jacques simply,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacques! Jacques! cried Leon in alarm, kneeling beside his companion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me see, begged Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take your hands away from your face."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lie down, Jacques,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A steel splinter hit me, I guess,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say it did, agreed Leon soberly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a lucky thing it didn't hit your eye. How do you feel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right. Pretty weak though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A doctor ought to dress that wound, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't leave this place before dark though; it would be sure death to try."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'm all right enough, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is only a scratch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A pretty deep scratch I should say, replied Leon grimly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It'll leave a scar as long as you live."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What of it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It won't help your looks any."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do I care? That scar will always remind me that I did something for France. I shall be proud of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you feel any better?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A little. I'd like my canteen though."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm hit,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the shoulder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unbutton your coat and shirt and look at it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's funny, mused Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you suppose its force became spent so soon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must have struck something else first."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say it did, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty lucky for you, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it hadn't been for that gun you'd have been done for now."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd better leave you now I guess, remarked Leon as dusk began to creep over the battlefield."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You stay here and I'll go back to your ditch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be careful, warned Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep low."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To die like this! thought Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a terrible end."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ouch, cried somebody suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He bit my finger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind that, said another voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get the dirt out of his mouth."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spit that dirt out on your parapet, said a voice which Leon recognized as belonging to Dubois, one of his mates."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll need it all there."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What hit me, Earl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dirt hit you, said Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A shell exploded just the other side of you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must have been a big one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was; 250-millimeter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's a ten-inch, isn't it? Did it do much damage?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well we've got two men less in our company than we had a few minutes ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I was lucky,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You certainly were, agreed Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That shell tore a hole in the ground about six feet deep and spilled about ten cubic yards of dirt on top of you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm all right, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only had a lot of dirt piled on me and that didn't do me any harm. Besides there is too much going on and I don't want to miss any of it."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come over here, Earl, he shouted a moment later."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This crater is much larger and safer than your ditch and lightning never strikes twice in the same place you know."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did you say about lightning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The shells are getting pretty close, aren't they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Dubois,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They certainly seem to be getting the range all right, exclaimed Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see what we can do though. We can't leave our post."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, agreed Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We certainly can't go back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can go ahead though,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember that little German trench about forty yards ahead of us out here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well why can't we go out and take possession of that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just the three of us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes, replied Dubois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will remember that there has been no firing from that spot all day. It is probably empty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think we can reach it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not? It is very close and yet we'll not be fired upon by the Boches. If we remain here it is but a question of time before we are entirely wiped out. What do you say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say to go,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come then,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't let any German clip that mole off, Earl, warned Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If that should happen I don't know how we could ever tell which was which."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's impossible to see anything to-night anyway, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have never seen such blackness."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and Earl take them back, said Dubois to Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll stay here in this trench and you'd better tell the rest of the fellows in our section to move up here. It's much safer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too bad Jacques could not be with you, said one of the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will be furious when he hears what he missed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He doesn't miss many things in that line, laughed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a good thing for him to get some rest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was he wounded badly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A cut across his face merely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will be back here to-morrow then, laughed the man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cannot keep that dare-devil away from the front for long."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine work, boys, said Captain Le Blanc cordially."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was a splendid and nervy thing you did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall see to it that you are mentioned in the dispatches,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Dubois,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, laughed the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Dubois."
}
] |
20995
|
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacques will be jealous of you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jacques is jealous of nobody, exclaimed Leon warmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He never has been and he never will be. He is too fine a fellow and has too much sense."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, agreed another soldier nearby."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is not the sort ever to begrudge another man an honor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dubois is still out in that trench, Leon, Earl reminded his brother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we'd better go out to him, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I certainly do, exclaimed Leon readily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All you men are coming too, aren't you?"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the safest place I've struck yet, exclaimed Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the German shells go over our heads here. We're just as safe here as we would be ten miles behind the firing line."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yon wouldn't be absolutely safe that far away,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well pretty nearly so anyway,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about Dunkirk? demanded Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See what they did there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did they do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They dropped a shell in the town from a distance of twenty-two miles. What good would ten miles do you against a gun like that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Germans certainly have some wonderful guns all right, said Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They won't touch us here though I guess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're sort of between the fires, aren't we?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said one of the men,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tiresome! exclaimed Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems to me there is enough going on around here to suit anybody."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not for me, said the man, Armande by name."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I'll go out and take a look around."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're crazy, exclaimed Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the use in doing a thing like that? You'll only get killed and what good will it do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't be killed, laughed Armande."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those Boches, they cannot shoot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you fool yourself, said Dubois seriously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course they can shoot and shoot well too. You are foolish, Armande."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps, Armande admitted with a shrug."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At any rate I shall now crawl over and have a look at the German trenches while it is yet dark. I shall be back before long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope so,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He may get back,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, said Dubois lightly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The night is dark and he may not be seen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How far is it to the German trenches from here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A hundred yards I guess, said Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not quite sure though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About that, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's he going to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He said he was going to go over and take a look at the German trenches, said Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose that's where he's gone."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought I heard a bell ring."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A bell! What kind of a bell?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It sounded like a cow-bell to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could that be? What would a cow-bell be doing out here on the battlefield? I suppose the Germans are grazing their cattle out there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be silly, Leon,"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you suppose it is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a bell, said Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you that before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's very strange, muttered Dubois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot understand it."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where can Armande be I wonder,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It certainly seems as if he ought to be back by this time, doesn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's dead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What makes you think so?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well he hasn't come back yet, has he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then he must be dead and I believe that bell ringing had something to do with it too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In what way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, said Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what I think though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slid,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Armande, cried Dubois bending over him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They got me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where? How?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the leg. A machine-gun bullet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where have you been?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over to the German trenches. They shot me about half an hour ago and it has taken me all this time to get back here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send word to the Red Cross, said Dubois to one of the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I could do something for you, he added to his wounded comrade."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is so dark here I cannot see a thing. Are you badly hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; just above the knee. It is painful and it was hard to walk but I doubt if it is serious."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope not, exclaimed Leon heartily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How did they happen to see you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you hear a bell?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We certainly did, exclaimed Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was my finish, said Armande."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was a clever ruse on the part of the Boches however and I must give them credit for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was it? asked Earl eagerly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you tell us about it?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Finally I could see the German barbed wire flickering faintly just ahead of me. I crept closer. I did not make a sound, and unnoticed I came directly up to the wire entanglements. I was so near I could hear the Boches talking to one another in their trenches."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it? cried Dubois anxiously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't I help you, Armande?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you tie something around my leg? It throbs badly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps you'd better not try to talk,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not that, exclaimed Armande."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is just my leg. Ah, that is better,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It struck me as a fine chance to give the Boches a good scare however. I determined to wake them up with a hand-grenade. I took one in my hand and prepared to hurl it. I raised myself slightly from the ground and took hold of a strand of the barked wire to steady my aim. No sooner had I touched the wire than a bell rang."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard it,"
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was probably hanging on the wire,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly, agreed Armande."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As soon as anyone touched the wire the bell would ring. It warned the Germans and I must admit it was a clever trick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It surely was, agreed Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What happened then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I jumped to my feet and started to run, exclaimed Armande."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had gone but a few steps however when they cut loose with their rapid-firers. A second later I was down, shot through the leg. I guess the Boches thought a whole regiment was making a surprise attack on them. They certainly used enough ammunition to wipe out two regiments."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Funny no more bullets struck you, Armande, said Dubois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you account for that? Was their aim poor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I fell I rolled into a shell-hole, said the wounded man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That afforded me good protection from their bullets. After awhile, when they discovered that they were not being attacked, they ceased firing and I crawled back here. It was hard going I can tell you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should think it might be, exclaimed Leon grimly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope your wound won't prove to be serious, Armande."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Earl when they had gone,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should say that Armande ought to be pretty glad that he got nothing worse than a bullet in his leg. I think he's lucky to be alive."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think so too, agreed Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was a great stunt for the Germans to hang that bell on the wire like that, wasn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was indeed, said Dubois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know what we can do to them though."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can we do to the Germans, Dubois?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can play a trick on them. What's the use in allowing them to have all the fun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what do you intend to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will show you presently. First of all I want a long piece of stout twine. I shall need a whole ball of it I guess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you going to do with it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will see very soon, said Dubois evasively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must get the twine before we do anything else."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you'd tell us what your plans are,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will know in good time, said Dubois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I were to tell you now you would try to restrain me. You would say I was foolish."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you going over to the German trenches?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait and see,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well all I can say is that if you try a thing like that you are crazy, exclaimed Leon warmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You saw how much good Armande's expedition did and what happened to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew you'd object to my plan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you admit that you are going over to their trenches?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't say so. Let's not talk about it any more."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who was looking for a ball of twine? asked a voice about a half-hour later."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was it that wanted the string?"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did anyone here want twine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jacques! cried Leon eagerly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leon, is it you? demanded Jacques, for it was the daring young Frenchman who had returned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Earl?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right here, exclaimed that individual briskly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what are you doing back here so soon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why shouldn't I come back?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you were wounded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Merely a scratch. The silly old doctors wanted me to remain in the base hospital for a day or two but that is ridiculous."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are reckless, Jacques, said Leon reprovingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still I am awfully glad to see you again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who wants this twine? asked Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I started back they gave it to me to bring out to some one in this trench who had telephoned in for it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, Dubois. What use can you have for string?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me have it and I'll soon show you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is fine, he murmured approvingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for the fun."
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, exclaimed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you think of that crazy man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's he going?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over to the German trenches I think."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To get killed I guess, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see what else it can be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He must have some object I should think, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wouldn't he tell you what it was?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he wouldn't, answered Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has something to do with a bell though I'm sure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps he's going to try to fix it so it won't ring any more, suggested Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's not afraid of anything you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not a question of being afraid, said Leon warmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a question of using good common sense."
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll never come back I'm afraid,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't give up yet, exclaimed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He may return."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd like to know why he went, said Lean."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why was he so mysterious?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dubois! cried Leon eagerly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where have you been?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over to see Fritzie, chuckled Dubois gayly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fritzie"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you hurt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurt? echoed Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never felt better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you been doing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll show you in just a moment,"
}
] |
20995
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for the fun, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Listen!"
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear that? demanded Dubois enthusiastically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't that great?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing? asked Leon curiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't mean to say that you made that bell ring."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, is that so? exclaimed Dubois gleefully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll show you again as soon as they stop that noise over there."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dubois! What have you got there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A string,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That ball of twine I brought out?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Dubois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you sneaked out and tied it to that bell?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well not exactly to the bell, replied Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tied it to the wire right along side the bell though; it serves the same purpose."
}
] |
20995
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a dare-devil, exclaimed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You took an awful chance just to have a little fun with the Germans."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not a little fun, Dubois corrected him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a lot of fun."
}
] |
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|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of their bullets has cut the string, said Dubois ruefully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our fun is over for the present I'm afraid."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like it, said Dubois peevishly one day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is getting on my nerves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This quiet life I suppose you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't call that very quiet,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we're not doing anything,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're alive anyway, said Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's something."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why don't they launch a great big offensive and drive these Germans out of our country? demanded Dubois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just sitting here in the trenches is not going to free France."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember this, Dubois, Jacques reminded his impulsive countryman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It takes thousands of guns and millions of shells to make the kind of an attack you are talking about."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't we got them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not yet, I'm afraid. General Joffre won't send his men out until he has sufficient backing for them either."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well if we haven't got enough guns and ammunition, persisted Dubois,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It takes time, smiled Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't build factories and teach people how to manufacture powder and shells over night, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Germany seems to have enough,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, agreed Leon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would they have done if it had not been for the United States? demanded Earl breaking into the conversation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've sent millions of dollars' worth of stuff to the Allies."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me about that, exclaimed Dubois."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is America sending supplies to Germany too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Practically none, I guess,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why not? Is it neutral for a country to sell to one side and not to the other?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "America would sell to Germany just the same as to Russia, France, and England, said Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The trouble is that Germany can't get the stuff into her country."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because of the English fleet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly. The English fleet has swept the German navy off the ocean. The only place left for them is the Baltic."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's wonderful, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it is, and most people don't give England half the credit she deserves for that. Just because her fleet doesn't fight a battle every day and do a lot of grandstand work people think it isn't doing anything important. In my opinion it has won the biggest victory of the whole war so far."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By keeping the German fleet bottled up you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's it, said Earl decidedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take the English fleet away and let the German warships come out of their hole and see what would happen to the Allies!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What would happen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well first of all they'd stop the shipment of all supplies for us from America. Think what that would mean. Then again they'd soon starve out England and she wouldn't be able to send any more soldiers over here to France."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They haven't sent so many anyway,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, agreed Earl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Probably, agreed Dubois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At any rate they helped us a lot at the beginning of the war when the Boches were driving us on the run back towards Paris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you think it's all right for the United States to sell supplies to the Allies and not to Germany? asked Jacques."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must say that I am glad that is what they are doing anyway."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly it is all right, exclaimed Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is permitted by international law and every nation in the world has done the same thing at some time or another. Just because this happens to be the biggest war in the history of the world and because as a result the United States is selling more supplies, doesn't change the facts, does it? As I said, we'd sell to Germany just as quickly as to the Allies. Because they can't get the stuff isn't our fault."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yea, Earl, you're quite a speechmaker,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't what I said true?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course it is. Why if we refused to sell to the Allies now that would mean that we were actively on the side of Germany and nothing we could do would be of greater help to her just now."
}
] |
20995
|
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Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The idea of being able to take a bath appeals to me, exclaimed Leon eagerly when he heard of the order."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am certainly dirty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We all are that, laughed Jacques,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We haven't had our clothes off either,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just suppose the people at home could see what we look like, chuckled Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'd disown us, I'm afraid."
}
] |
20995
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you see who was in that car?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. Who was it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was President Poincaré, president of France."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you sure that was President Poincaré?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure of it, replied Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have seen him several times before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you suppose he is doing here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On a tour of inspection probably. He visits the front frequently."
}
] |
20995
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Five bunks and only four of us, remarked Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder who is going to use the extra bed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't call that thing a bed, laughed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't insult a bed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all right, exclaimed Earl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks pretty good to me after the trenches. At any rate I can sleep on anything."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So can I, agreed Leon quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't think I'm complaining. I'd like to know who is going to use the other bunk though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn around and you'll see,"
}
] |
20995
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Armande! cried Dubois joyfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad to see you."
}
] |
20995
|
Unknown Title
|
Unknown Author
|
[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is your leg?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As sound as ever,"
}
] |
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